Since launching her career, Ms. Mangiameli has won praise in roles as both a mezzo and a soprano. The Charlottesville Daily Progress called her voice “full and luxurious” with “beautiful sforzandos and pianissimos that were breath-taking.” And in The Rape of Lucretia, the San Francisco Chronicle stated that she “brought vocal refinement and elegance to the title role.”
      Ms. Mangiameli’s current 2007-08 season includes Angelica in Handel’s Orlando at Chicago Opera Theatre and an appearance as soloist in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 with the Atlantic Classical Orchestra. In 2008-09 Ms. Mangiameli will sing Anna in Nabucco at Florida Grand Opera. Recently, Ms. Mangiameli has performed with Florida Grand Opera as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and the High Priestess in Aida. She has also performed the roles of Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow and Musetta in La bohème with the Ash Lawn Opera Festival (Virginia).
     In prior seasons, Ms. Mangiameli sang as a mezzo-soprano in roles such as Mercedes in Carmen with Florida Grand Opera, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opera Omaha, as well as the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas and Ursula in The Padlock with Chicago Opera Theater. She also performed Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia with San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette with Florida Grand Opera, and Meg in Little Women with Indiana University Opera Theater.
     On the concert stage Ms. Mangiameli has sung Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles with Opera Omaha, Sandström’s The High Mass at Indiana University, as well as Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with Worn Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco). She has also performed in recital with Glimmerglass Opera and Florida Grand Opera.
     Kate Mangiameli has participated in the young artist programs at the Steans Institute at Ravinia, Florida Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Additionally, she was awarded grants in 2004 and 2005 by the Metropolitan Opera Education Fund, won the 2004 Opera Index Encouragement Award, and was a 2004 finalist for both the Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists and the Richard Tucker Foundation’s Sara Tucker Study Grant.
     She holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Indiana University.